Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!mhres!jv From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <1266@mhres.mh.nl> Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 03:45:54 EDT Article-I.D.: mhres.1266 Posted: Fri Sep 4 03:45:54 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 16:46:49 EDT References: <1254@mhres.mh.nl> <16294@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Organization: Multihouse N.V., The Netherlands Lines: 20 In article <16294@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes: >in article <1254@mhres.mh.nl>, jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) says: >... >-> Imagine, my system (HP9000/530 with HP-UX, a very good System V.2 with >-> Berkeley enhancements) does not have "." and "..": > >That's funny, we have an HP9000/320 and two HP9000/350s running HP-UX >and all 3 have . and .. > That's right. I suppose the 800 series has them too. Only the 500 series has a different (and more robust) file structure than the others. It took me some time to loose the habit of changing file characteristics with "chmod go-w * .*" being super-user... -- Johan Vromans | jv@mh.nl via European backbone Multihouse N.V., Gouda, the Netherlands | uucp: ..{?????!}mcvax!mh.nl!jv "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness"